Scattering of Glueballs and the AdS/CFT Correspondence

TL;DR

This paper explores how a phenomenological approach inspired by the AdS/CFT correspondence can approximate high-energy glueball scattering amplitudes and scalar glueball mass ratios in non-conformal field theories.

Contribution

It demonstrates that introducing a maximum axial AdS coordinate scale effectively reproduces key physical features of glueball interactions and mass ratios.

Findings

Reproduces high-energy glueball scattering amplitude scaling

Provides an approximation for scalar glueball mass ratios

Supports the utility of phenomenological AdS/CFT models in non-conformal theories

Abstract

Inspired in the AdS/CFT correspondence one can look for dualities between string theory and non conformal field theories. Exact dualities in the non conformal case are intricate but approximations can be helpful in extracting physical results. A phenomenological approach consists in introducing a scale corresponding to the maximum value of the axial AdS coordinate. Here we show that this approach can reproduce the scaling of high energy glueball scattering amplitudes and also an approximation for the scalar glueball mass ratios.